P: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 - memory leak during Import or when left open for long periods

Yes, but it is too soon to tell if this problem still exists. It *does* still use a significant amount of RAM but I haven't run out completely yet. 

Have you guys tried Lightroom Classic CC (v7.0.1)?

I finally worked with Adobe and they helped me revert to LR 2015.10.1 several weeks ago, and it seems to have resolved so far. I did have one RAM-related crash since then, but I think it may have been due to Safari. Hope that helps!  

IS there a solution in sight? Looks like this is a universal problem and has nothing to do with amount of RAM, the lightroom CC simply gobbles all the RAM and renders iMac in a hung state. 

Not leaving LR open for long periods.
Making sure I import after each shoot, so as to not have too much on the card when importing (as this 'causes it to fail). So, yeah, management of the problem, and hoping the next patch release fixes the issue.

So what have you been doing? Just dealing with the crashes? 

Not that I've seen as yet. 

Hi, has there been any solution for this problem? I'm having a very similar issue on the same OS, 2017 MacBook Pro, 16GB RAM. 

I have seen this previously and logged an issue for it. 

I have had new problems in 2015.12 related to running out of "application memory" during import of new photographs, and once it just got hung during import.   Also prior to executing the import I sometimes see a list of photographs that are in a neighboring folder rather than the folder I selected, and then it can't find thumbnails for those new photos.  I will try to take more specific notes about the situation it if happens again.